If I catch the flu at BM I'm only an hour and a half away from home. We have a seven day Mexican cruise scheduled for mid-July. Currently cruise lines are cancelling Mexican port calls. Worse comes to worse we sail around the ocean for seven days getting fat and drunk

You know it's going to be a bad day when you jump out of bed and miss the floor.

geospyder wrote:If I catch the flu at BM I'm only an hour and a half away from home. We have a seven day Mexican cruise scheduled for mid-July. Currently cruise lines are cancelling Mexican port calls. Worse comes to worse we sail around the ocean for seven days getting fat and drunk

So you are planning to infect us all. what an interest Darwinian trial.

geospyder wrote:If I catch the flu at BM I'm only an hour and a half away from home. We have a seven day Mexican cruise scheduled for mid-July. Currently cruise lines are cancelling Mexican port calls. Worse comes to worse we sail around the ocean for seven days getting fat and drunk :twisted:

So you are planning to infect us all. what an interest Darwinian trial.

Oh really. September isn't flu season. If we catch the damn swine flu it's going to be from someone coming from the southern hemisphere (New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Chile) where it is flu season. If they can spread it in tthose hot, dry conditions.

Everybody's going to be wearing dust masks anyway.

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I brought the flu virus with me to BM last year.
Generously gifted as it was by an American sat next to me on an internal US flight on the first day of my holiday.

I was fine!.. except the two days I spent asleep while we were building our camp, then the 3 bags of saline that made me shit myself all through the following night and then developed a secondary throat and ear infection that rendered me incapable of hearing or speaking beyond a 2ft radius for the next 3 weeks.